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Granted Patent B2
US 10,527,813 · App. 15/660,582 · Granted Jan 7, 2020

Optical part and method for manufacturing optical part

Inventor: Daigo Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G02B7/02B29D11/00009G02B1/041G02B27/0018
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Patent No.
US 10,527,813
App. No.
15/660,582
Granted
Jan 7, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plastic lens is fixed by a holder biting into the plastic lens, a side surface of the plastic lens has a gate trace, and a bite amount into the plastic lens of the holder closest to the gate trace is smaller than an average bite amount into the plastic lens of the holder.

Claims (18)

1. An optical part comprising:

a plastic lens having a side surface connecting a first optical surface and a second optical surface, between the first optical surface and the second optical surface; and

a holder, wherein:

the plastic lens is fixed by a holder biting into the plastic lens,

the side surface of the plastic lens has a gate trace, and a bite amount into the plastic lens of the holder closest to the gate trace is smaller than a bite amount of the holder on a side surface adjacent to the side surface having the gate trace, or the holder closest to the gate trace does not bite into the plastic lens.

2. The optical part according to claim 1 , wherein the lens is an eyepiece lens and has an eyepiece side lens surface and an objective side lens surface, and the holder bites into the eyepiece side lens surface.

3. The optical part according to claim 1 , wherein a material forming the holder is a material including reinforcing fiber in a material including polycarbonate, ABS, PS, PMMA, or a composite material thereof.

4. The optical part according to claim 3 , wherein a content of the reinforcing fiber in the material forming the holder is 10% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less.

5. The optical part according to claim 1 , wherein an average bite amount into the plastic lens is smaller than 0.32 mm.

6. The optical part according to claim 1 , wherein the material forming the plastic lens comprises a cyclic olefin.

7. A camera comprising the optical part according to claim 1 .

8. A method for manufacturing an optical part, comprising:

inserting a holder into a mold;

injecting a molten resin from a gate into a cavity; and

molding a plastic lens, wherein:

the cavity has a surface for transferring a first optical surface, a second optical surface, and a side surface connecting the first optical surface and the second optical surface,

the gate is formed on the surface for transferring the side surface, and the insertion of the holder is performed so that a protrusion amount of a portion of the holder closest to the gate from the surface for transferring the side surface is smaller than a bite amount of the holder on a surface adjacent to the surface having the gate, or the holder closest to the gate does not protrude from the surface for transferring the side surface.

9. The method for manufacturing an optical part according to claim 8 , wherein the molten resin has a difference in solubility parameter (SP value) of 0.5 or more with the material forming the holder.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 3, 2017
From: KOBAYASHI, DAIGO
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044100/0539 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-150333 · Jul 29, 2016 · national
JP 2017-129346 · Jun 30, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180031796A1 · Feb 1, 2018
Cited By (1)
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